CAN-2005-0001 Paul Starzetz from isec.pl found an exploitable hole in the x86 SMP page fault handler which could lead to privilege escalation. http://www.isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0022-pagefault.txt

This update additionally fixes a random memory corruption issue present in the previous update, and in addition updates to the latest -ac collection of patches. A full changelog of the update vs the previous -ac8 based release is available at http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/13/219